Basicaly, you find a quote and translate it literally into another language. Not from the book in, say, german, but you must translate it yourself. Any language will do, but if they use a different alphabet (eg. Cyrillic) then try to use latin letters for the sounds in the other alphabet. Dead languages also count. I'll start with a little latin:

Is it Gandalf? it seems to be what he says to the Balrog about him being the wielder of the Flame of Arnor, and you shall not pass. I don't have my book so I can't look it up [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

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"I will take the Ring," he said,
"though I do not know the way."

"Welcome Gimli son of Gloin! It is long indeed since we saw one of Durin`s folk in Caras Galadhon. But today we have broken our long law. May it be a sign that though the world is now dark better days are at hand , and that friendship shall be renewed between our peoples" (Celeborn to Gimli ) (Was that Danish or Swedish?)

Ok. Here is some quote in German. (If that should be too easy, I`ll try Swiss-German dialect next time...)

[img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] My goodness, I`ve no idea. The only thing I know is that "da" means yes. And does pony mean pony or just looks like it? (I know one Barrowdown-member who is Russian, that is Akhtene, but I`ve met her only in "books")

Thank you for the hint!!
I think I can guess where it MIGHT be... With the help of a (nearly useless and most irritating)language-guide for tourists I found out further that "mi" is we and "vi" is you, and "nadejde" something like hope ? And "ix plana"= their plan ? Well, I`ll have a try:

"Yes", said Strider reluctantly, "you had better do that. I am afraid we shall have to try to get one pony at least. But so ends all hope of starting early, and slipping away quietly! We might as well have blown a horn to announce our departure. That was part of their plan, no doubt."
(Strider to Butterbur in the morning after the attack of the Nazgûls in the prancing Pony)

OK, shall I try Swiss dialect this time ?(Georgian was just as exotic to most people I guess! And French would be too easy for you, HerenIstarion, for I`ve noticed you speak French as well! You really seem to be a multi-talent in languages! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] )

[img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] Good gracious! How many languages do you speak ?? Is it allowed to ask you if you are an interpreter by profession ? And which is your mothertongue?
I`ll go now and ponder over the ending "---out of Middle-Earth" but am not very hopeful.

Good gracious! How many languages do you speak ?? Is it allowed to ask you if you are an interpreter by profession ? And which is your mothertongue?

*H-I mutters under his breath "vanity, oh vanity", but nevertheless is very pleased with the exclamation above

Interpreter? well, diploma reads so, though I do not hold a position of one
Mothertongue is Georgian

To be honest, I speak well 2 tongues only - Georgian and Russian. English comes in with #3, the rest are bits and scraps here and there scattered in memory from different periods of attraction. Or, to be short, I can not rub along without dictionary with the rest.

As for other participants-to-be - somebody will show up, I'm sure [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Darn you, H-I! Throwing out a quote in a language that next to nobody on the Downs knows! Well, let's see if I can puzzle this out. I have a feeling that it's a quote from Galadriel or Elrond, seeing as it starts "Yet I also should be sad..." and ends "For much that is fair and good has passed out of Middle-Earth." This is one of those times that I wish I were doing this at home instead of at school. Then I could have the books next to me, specifically RotK. Any of this right, or am I way off base?
I only really know two languages, English as a mothertongue and Spanish as a secondary language. I know a few (and I mean very few) bits and pieces of German, French, Italian, and Latin. Apart from that, I know next to nothing about other languages. Oh wait. I forgot two. Quenya and Sindarin, of course! But that would make it too easy, wouldn't it?

I was thinking along these lines too, Eruhen!
In fact, both Elrond and Galadriel say at some place something very similar, but not exactly in these words. And what about "said the king" (king standing for the name) ? I`ve been searching back and forth everywhere in my already well-thumbed books, also in the appendix, but haven`t found it (yet...) You really steal a lot of my time, HerenIstarion, now when I should be writing X-mas letters!! [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

"Yet also shoud I be sad said Theoden For however the fortune of war shall go, may it not end that much that wasd fair and wonderfull will pass forever out of Middle- Earth."
=> "The Two Towers, Book 3, Chapter 8 -"The Road to Isengard"

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Dear Schmendrick, this game is played in turns. Now we are waiting for Manardariel to pose a question. You are free to take up in two cases:
1. In case you get the right answer to Manardariel's quote
2. In case Manardariel neglects this thread for more than a week

All your words are but to say: You are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more.

I know this! But unfortunately I don't know the word-to-word-translation in english, since I only have the book in finnish here at my parents'!
It's Frodo, in the end, when he chooses not to throw the ring into the fire!
In finnish he says:" Olen tullut. Mutta nyt en tee sitä, minkä tulin tekemään. Tätä tekoa en tee. Sormus on minun!"
And in eglish something like:" I've arrived. But I won't do what I came here to do. This (deed) I won't do. The Ring is mine!"
And now, if this was the right answer,I ask you the quote I already wrote in my previous post! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

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